Stargzer wrote:...However, at the computer center they made sure we knew to use the bottled water to make the coffee, not the tap water.

They have to tell people that??

We were from out of town, from areas where the water is safe.

Trouble was, the coffee was never strong enough unless I made it. Everybody else used only one pack of coffee; I had to double it to get something decent. Hey, when you've got a 24- to 48-hour Hot Site test to work, you need something to keep you up. Something legal, that is.

Stargzer wrote:...Northern NJ is the only place I remember seeing those jug-handle intersections for making left turns.

Granted, that's true... but I'm from Joisey, so I'm used to those...Everyone should have jug-handled turns! You seemingly disapproving of them is an insult!Them be's fightin' words! Heheh... my feigning an overreaction to that reminds me of a common phrase I've heard over the years:

I only said it's the only place I'd seen jug-handles. It's an interesting approach to traffic control, much better than the circles (rotaries) our county is putting in instead of stoplights in some places.

Happy New Year, shacolourdes!

Regards//Larry

"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." -- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee

Larry, somehow I don't think John Roberts and Tony Barrand wrote RMNJ- I know they recorded it but it had been around before that. Can't be sure, and you know how lyrics sites are about accuracy.

I finally went to their music publisher's web site and at the bottom of this page they claim responsibility for RMNJ:

... John wrote Eat Bertha's Mussels for our hosts at the fine Baltimore establishment, who have never failed to treat us royally on our many visits there. And, finally, we admit to responsibility for The Rolling Mills of New Jersey. Matt McGinn wrote The Rolling Hills of the Border. This is not that.

The Rolling Mills of New Jersey uses the same tune as The Rolling Hills of the Border, so that's an older song.

Produced by John Roberts & Tony BarrandRecorded live at Holsteins, 2462 North Lincoln, Chicago, November 5 & 6, 1982 by Rich Warren, WFMTMastered and Edited by Grey Larsen at Sleepy Creek Recording & Mastering, Bloomington, IndianaPhotography by Emily Freidman

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SONG NOTES It was really Emily Friedman's fault. She wanted a recording of "The Barley Mow," that classic English drinking song, she thought we were the boys to do it, and she suggested that only a live recording would do. So she and her volunteer staff at Aural Tradition in Chicago booked us into Holsteins for a weekend, organized Rich Warren of WFMT to bring in some microphones and his new toy, a digital recording machine, and order us to go to work. So we did, and our recording of pub songs, choruses, general mayhem and merrymaking became a Front Hall L.P. Now we've gone back to those original tapes to add a few more songs and recitations, and here it is, finally, on CD.

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I suspect it was written before 1982 but I can't find an earlier recording listed. The latest info I could find on "Andy's Front Hall Music" was a post in 1995 giving an address and phone/FAX numbers in NY. No listing in Wikipedia, not web site. It's probably lost to history unless it's in the Library of Congress.

The search will continue in the background ...

Regards//Larry

"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." -- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee